Hi, Affirmative for both - Sterculia guttata [Kukar,Goldhar] & Xenochropis piscator [the Checkered Keelback]. Regards, Neil Soares.
--- On Tue, 9/13/11, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: From: raghu ananth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81584] Re: Malvaceae Week: Sterculia Villosa ID (MW-AR17) To: "Giby Kuriakose" <[email protected]>, "H S" <[email protected]> Cc: "Neil Soares" <[email protected]>, "efloraofindia" <[email protected]>, "harithasandhya" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 3:39 PM Got some more pictures of the same tree (Sterculiaceae guttata member) with leaves, trunk, fruits and a large water snake-probably a checkered keelback peeping out of the rock crevice under the tree root. Tree large, trunk 3-5 meters, Bark white, Leaves - ~Heart shaped, ~Ovate, ~acute, 12cms approx. Very few leaves here and there in the tree branches. No flowers, Fruits- Hundreds, Approx 15 in a cluster. Habitat: River side, near rocky bed Family Sterculiaceae, Kallar, Western ghats, Kerala Regards Raghu From: Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]> To: H S <[email protected]> Cc: Neil Soares <[email protected]>; efloraofindia <[email protected]>; harithasandhya <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, 13 September 2011 2:22 PM Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:81584] Re: Malvaceae Week: Sterculia Villosa ID (MW-AR17) I too think that this is Sterculia guttata. A common species of the genus Sterculia in Ponmudi- Bonacaud-Schendaruni area. Regards, Giby On 13 September 2011 13:37, H S <[email protected]> wrote: yes look like S. guttata, pods turn orange-red in colour on maturity. regards, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Just checked the mail. Leaves are seen in photographs 2 & 3. If they belong to the same tree, then it is obviously Sterculia guttata. Regards, Neil Soares. --- On Tue, 9/13/11, harithasandhya <[email protected]> wrote: From: harithasandhya <[email protected]> Subject: [efloraofindia:81570] Re: Malvaceae Week: Sterculia Villosa ID (MW-AR17) To: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 1:07 PM I am familiar with the location. Sterculia guttata trees are usually found along the river bed there. So I assume the picture could be of Sterculia guttata. Regards, Sandhya On Sep 13, 12:18 pm, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I was also tempted to call it S. guttata based on FBI, and with 1-4 > follicles, but held back as I don't have much knowledge of this genus. > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM, harithasandhya > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > Could this be Sterculia guttata? > > > Regards, > > Sandhya > > > On Sep 11, 5:14 pm, raghu ananth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Malvaceae Week: Sterculia Villosa (MW-AR17) > > > > (ID confirmation reqd. Will write/fill the plant desc later,.) > > > > eflora discussion link on the same > > > >https://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/e3... > > > > Kallar river bed, Kallar forest, Ponmudi, Kerala > > > Dec 2008 > > > > Regards > > > Raghu > > > > FruitingTree-KallarForest-Dec2008-Pic1.jpg > > > 261KViewDownload > > > > FruitingTree-KallarForest-Dec2008-Pic3.jpg > > > 218KViewDownload > > > > FruitingTree-KallarForest-Dec2008-Pic2.jpg > > > 230KViewDownload -- - H.S. A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
